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How to [Cancel] Your [Culture] Subscription

HeMansWayHeMansWay Registered User regular
edited July 2022 in Debate and/or Discourse
HeMansWay was warned for this.
"Cancel culture", otherwise known as "consequences for having shitty opinions and saying them on a public forum", has been widely decried by some people (typically those that have been called out for their behavior and their fans). What do you all think about this? Is this something you are all against? I personally am for it. I think that if someone says something on a public forum, then there is no reason why that information shouldn't be shared.

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt Stepped in it Registered User regular
    Indeed, 'Cancel culture' is 'actions have consequences.' And it's not just online behavior - if one is a creepy asshole who drugs and date rapes people, one deserves to be 'canceled.'

    I don't think you're going to find anyone here who is not in favor of actions having consequences, and that gross, unspeakable, or criminally awful behavior is something people should not be able to avoid them on.

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    We would have to get terms down before a discussion can start. What's the difference between a boycott and cancel culture? Is what happened to the Dixie Chix back in the early 00s a mass boycott or budding cancel culture? Is a book burning cancel culture or something else?

  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    To build on Gabriel’s point, most people who are “cancelled” rarely fade from the spotlight forever.

    Whether they make a genuine act of contrition and spend time and resources making things right as best they can, or dipping out of the public eye for a news cycle or five, I’d say the notion of consequences for one’s words/actions receive a hell of a lot more discourse than those who have misbehaved (to put it exceedingly mildly) are likely to actually be “cancelled” in anything but a temporary fashion.

    If not spinning the ire garnered into a new job or a gofundme type campaign to profit off their newfound or repeated infamy.

    Millions of people yell about it but, like, five dudes have actually been cancelled successfully. (Minor hyperbole present.. but I don’t think I’m terribly far off)

    You’re more likely to be struck by lightning.

    First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
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